Princesses, Pirates, and babies...oh my!!

So we have been living a life of "princesses and pirate ships and the seven dwarfs" to pull a line from Taylor Swifts song "Best Day." Isabella has exploded into the princess scene with amazing dedication. She wants to watch and be Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Belle, Ariel, or Jasmine each and every day. She has the Cinderella, Ariel and Tinkerbell costumes so she enjoys being those girls and I would be lying if I said Nick and I weren't having a blast being a part of her new fantasy world. She also enjoys Peter Pan and made our living room and ocean the other day where our chairs were pirate ships and the crocodile was coming for us. It is just so much fun!!


Swimming like Ariel...

Last week we drove down to FL to visit our friends down there. We were able to see Yentz and Col Nardo and Christine Clark, all former teachers of Nick. Isabella had so much fun seeing each of them.

We are so blessed to have friends who were able to get us in to Disney World for free so we went the the Magic Kingdom while we were there and had a ball with the kiddos. Isabella was over the moon. I think it was so much to even take in for her. Around lunchtime we realized it was time for lunch so she could take some time to process all she had done and seen. We went to the park at 9 o'clock when it opened and we rode Snow White, the teacups, and Dumbo and then waited to get in to Toontown so we could see the Princesses. We did get a glimpse of Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters while we were waiting. We were second in line to see the princesses and Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Belle were there. Isabella was so excited to meet them. My favorite was Cinderella, she was so sweet to Isabella.



Here we are after the Dumbo ride.

Then we went and met the princesses...



Here is the moment when Cinderella took Isabella out of the line and spun her around. We were second in line and waiting our turn. She was so sweet to Isabella. As you can see Isabella was pretty interested in Sleeping Beauty over the others princesses.



And later in the day we caught up with Jasmine and Aladdin...
She loved riding the carousel so we did that several times. She also loved the Jungle Cruise and the "Yo-Ho ride" also known as Pirates of the Caribbean. I wish we could go there every week...it was just so fun to go somewhere where we could all be kids and have fun. We will definitely be planning a trip in the future.
At the end of a very wet but fun day...

The rain kept people away and it was already during the least busy time of year, so it made no lines and we were able to ride all the rides and many of them 2 or 3 times in a row. We had a blast! Thank you so much to Mike and Robert for saving us the price of tickets!!

One of the main reasons we went to Florida was to meet the newest member of the Strobridge family. Ben and Lisa welcomed little Elizabeth Victoria Opal Strobridge to the world on January 18, 2010 at 7:21 pm. She was 8 lbs 1 oz and 21 inches. She is a sweet little baby. I think we heard a little cry once or twice but it was just to tell mommy she was hungry. And of course, I love her name! :)

She did a lot of sleeping of course...

Watching Nick's funny face...
Congratulations guys!!

Well this post is already long enough. I am going to do a separate one for Jack and everything he has been up to.